▽Not Even Wrong ●11/23 16:54 This Week’s HypePosted on November 22, 2024 by woitIf a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth and willing to produce appropriate propaganda. This is the 142nd edition of This Week’s Hype, which has been documenting this phenomenon for the past twent
▽Computational Complexity ●11/21 04:46 Wednesday, November 20, 2024For what d is the following true: For all 2-colorings of \(R^d\) has a mono unit square (Answering(?) the Question)In my last post (see here) I invited you to work on the following question:Find a \(d\) such that--There is a 2-coloring of \(R^d\) with no mono unit square.--For all 2-colorings of \(R^{d+1}\) there is a mono unit square.Actually I should have phrase
▽Not Even Wrong (RSS) ●11/18 19:19 2024-11-15T18:43:39Z https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?feed=atom WordPress woit https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14242 2024-11-15T18:43:39Z 2024-11-15T17:53:01Z Continue reading →]]> There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of g
